Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 3 August 2019

Wellington Meetup 3 August 2019
Date: Saturday, 3 August 2019

Time: 10:00 am to midday

Location: net.work space, National Library, Corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Wellington

To bring: laptop if you have one

Venue

 * The National Library net.work space has good WiFi and internet accessible computers for those that don’t have laptops. The meetup organizer has spoken with staff and they are happy to have us use the space for a meet up. We'll be there from 10.00am.

Future Meetups
This is a fortnightly event but double check the Wellington Meetup page to confirm. Join the Wikipedia New Zealand Facebook group to be kept informed. Also see New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board for discussion relevant to New Zealand Wikipedians.

Attending

 * 1) User:Einebillion
 * 2) User:David Nind
 * 3) User:Pippipip
 * 4) Jon (talk)
 * 5) Quilt Phase
 * 6) User:Gertrude206

Unable to come

 * 1) User:Ambrosia10 - may be able to come for about an hour at the start but it will depend on timing. Wellington on a Plate function clash is to blame!
 * 2) User:Barbuliscious - arohamai. see you next time.

Agenda

 * Introduction to meet up by organisers
 * Round table for participants to say what you’re working on and if you need help with anything - bring along your Wikipedia, Wikidata, or Wikimedia problems
 * Highlighted research resource: Gazette for New Zealand (1946 ~ 1992)
 * Get on with problem solving, editing, and chatting
 * Suggestion from Mike: folks on Twitter were asking about an article about charity group The Aunties (needs improving) and founder Jackie Clark. Maybe a project for someone? —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 01:58, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

Hawke's Bay Digital Archives Trust
The Hawke's Bay Digital Archives Trust have set up their site, Knowledge Bank with a default license of CC-BY-NC, for example this nifty image of Te Mata Peak. In summary, two things about this:


 * The NC (Non-Commercial Use) clause prevents usage on Wikipedia and Wikipedia Commons, and
 * Much of the material is in the public domain, and therefore cannot be covered by a Creative Commons license anyway.

Question: is there a way to somehow automatically "mirror" resources onto Wikipedia Commons, given the appropriate license change can be made, or do they need to be (bulk) imported?

Useful links and suggestions:
 * Inform the Hawke's Bay Digital Archives Trust that Te Papa's National Services provide assistance for copyright training with Expert Knowledge exchanges and also have information on funding sources.
 * Digital NZ - how to become a content partner.
 * Commons bulk importing guide, see also Flickr2Commons.

Wayback Machine plugin
David showed us the Wayback Machine browser plug-in for archiving and citing web pages (Internet Archive blog post). Available for Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome.

Gertrude206 reported later a bit of trouble with the plug-in in Safari. After installing it Wikipedia kept logging out when trying to edit. Problem resolved when the plug-in was uninstalled.

Citation bookmarklet
Jon (talk) uses a nifty bookmarklet (a scrap of JavaScript, saved as a bookmark) called WebRef, for Firefox and Chrome, that generates the cite template text you need to paste into your Wikipedia article. There are loads of other nifty citation tools over at Help:Citation_tools.

Past Wellington Meetups

 * Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 3 August 2019 - 3 August 2019
 * Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 20 July 2019 - 20 July 2019
 * Archives NZ Edit-a-thon - 7 July 2019
 * Meetup 22 June 2019 - 22 June 2019
 * Wikiblitz 2019 – 20 February 2019
 * NZ Comics and Cartoons Edit-a-thon – 23 March 2019
 * Chinese history Edit-a-thon – 25 March 2019
 * The previous Wellington meetup – 20 January 2019

Next meeting and Meetup timetables

 * 17 August, same time, same place (to confirm)